Nobel Peace Prize About To Be Announced

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is about to be awarded at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

We'll post the news as soon as possible after the ceremony, which is scheduled to get started at 5 a.m. ET, gets going. And then we'll follow with more about the award and the winner(s). Please hit your "refresh" button to get our updates.

This year's last Nobel award, for economics, will be announced on Monday.

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